Douglas County commissioners will hear about several pending Kansas legislative proposals that could reshape property taxes on Wednesday. In addition to hearing more about what’s going on in the Kansas Legislature, county commissioners will be briefed on the county’s own property tax ...
More than $74 million in improvements to reduce the Kansas River wastewater treatment plant’s impact on the environment are almost complete, city staff said this week. At the Connected City Advisory Board’s meeting on Monday, Trevor Flynn, assistant director of Municipal Services and ...
A 166,000-square-foot Costco store in Lawrence now has a projected opening for fall 2026, according to a press release from a Kansas City-based real estate firm. The release from LANE4 Property Group said the store's opening will be "just in time for Thanksgiving," and construction is ...
When the Iranian government shut down the Internet last month, dozens of Iranian students at the University of Kansas lost their means of connecting with family and friends. They attended classes and lived their "Lawrence lives," worried sick about loved ones who might be affected by the ...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup may be one of the biggest events the Kansas City area has ever seen, but it will take a lot of little details to pull it off successfully. For Scott Fewins, general manager of field operations for Lawrence’s Municipal Services and Operations department, that means ...
A 55-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to 16 months in prison for violently threatening a downtown Lawrence restaurant worker. Judge Amy Hanley pronounced the sentence after hearing a brief statement from the victim delivered by prosecutor Eve Kemple. The incident was "very scary and ...
